And that's that's boarded for right now. And then uh another another housing case at uh 1370 Elliot Street. Little little tricky one. This is a bad uh bad housing case that we picked up, but we we we ordered the we sent we ordered both both the occupants as well as the owner, but we are not able to and the address of the owner. So on file or with a with a records assessor's office and all that, right? We the official address of the owner is at 370 Elliot Street, but it seems he's in California. We are not able to locate that address so far, but we have sent our order letter to this address on And is someone living there now? Yes, there there are two two people living there. So this is where the complaint came from came to us from from them you know.
Um and then we transitioned into the seminar. So we had almost 90 people come um and present on photography and law enforcement and the medical field. Um here you see students and and the it's interesting because a lot of the presenters tried to make it interactive. So here is a presentation that was done by a nurse and she had given it a doctor um for a patient that was about to be discharged and then the nurse comes in and has to interpret the order and sometimes finds mistakes and then has to go back to the doctor and says this won't work because and so she had given them orders and they were trying to figure out the medications and kind of what the treatment plan was going to be when they got home. So um lots of great things. Um who else was there? The entrepreneurs.
There's no discussion. Uh vice chair for the vote. Okay. Thank you. The committee on transportation and culture and the arts chair's recommendation is to pass STR 1117 and SR98 and with amendments chair Lee I vice chair goes I senator Alfante hi senator kuha hi senator deort measures adopted Mr. Sure. Thank you. Same recommendation for committee on edu. And no discussion. Uh chair votes eye. Uh same recommendation STR 117 SR98. Chair's recommendation for EDU is pass with amendments. Uh chair Kanani is excused. Uh acting chair Kim. Hi. Senator Hashimoto. Hi. I vote I. Senator Dort I. Chair recommendations adopted for STR 117 SR 98. Thank you. We are adjourned. uh 30. Uh we're convening the committee on transportation and culture and the arts on our 3001 p.m. agenda here in state capital conference room 224. Uh we have a number of resolutions up on our agenda this afternoon.
This process, bringing poverty to the table. Okay. Thank you. Um, for me, I brought a copy of The Outsiders from over at the Gateway Library. Yeah, it's a great book. It's 160ish pages. It's actually a pretty easy read. I taught it to my seventh grade students when I was an English teacher. Um, they loved it. It was great. Um however um you know in the school district I like often been when especially when I taught English I've been discouraged from teaching novels to students because um it's better for test scores to target excerpts and more specific skills in our and also in our um curriculum and our resources for English. Even though this is one of the novels that's like recommended in our um English curriculum, there's not really a lot of resources for teachers. Um and so in order to teach this book, I had to sort of go out of my way.
So are they paying rent to somebody is where the checks going or that is correct. So so was a little tricky you know because we have to site them too. uh there was unsanitary conditions that part of their that's part of their responsibility but I have tried multiple times you know I was with the even with the building prinster the fire department we all together also went but they didn't provide us the address of the owner after we cited that so Raj can you go into any detail I don't recollect what or recall what the issue was there and sanitary in what way right there was multiple issues Right. That that saw that the occupants one of the occupant called us. Right. So I did one inspection myself. Right. Then there was another inspection done with building commissioner and fire department. I will I can share uh the order to crack letter that we sent sent out.
Um who did you want to see? Um Jake O A O A O A O A O A O A O A O A O A O A Oen Claus. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So he wrote the scores for Oppenheimer and several other um important films. Um but a special special special day and you heard it from the kids. They were just amazing as they always are. Respectful asking good questions, but they so appreciated the idea to explore avenues that they might not have other otherwise thought about or know people in those fields. So great success on Friday. Um looking forward to it again in two more years. excited for your kids to eventually um experience it if they haven't already. MCCAST season is underway, especially in the world of ELA and math will be coming around the corner in May. So, just a reminder that although it's no longer a graduation requirement for the state of Massachusetts, our third graders are eighth graders and our 10th graders are still going to take the exam um so that they can show that their um competency and mastery of the Massachusetts state standards.
Um we'd ask everyone to uh make sure that your testimony submitted and we'll be limiting folks to no more than one minute to make sure we have time to get to all testifiers. Up first is and we'll be taking uh resolutions um both the Senate concurrent resolutions and the Senate resolutions uh concurrently for testimony. So up first is STR 196 and SR76 supporting and encouraging a broader relationship between the state and the Kingdom of Norway. And with testimony uh signed up for testimony on these is Michael Boulder. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, chair and members of the committee. Um, I would like to express my support for this resolution just because I feel like we can learn a lot from the Kingdom of Norway. They're rated high in both quality of life and uh cl and uh and their dedication to climate change and they have uh have an extensive track record with uh as I said before with quality of life and are ranked one of the highest in the world in terms of individual life satisfaction.
I had to find my own resources. I had to build my own activities. Um, our kids, you know, can't always access like grade level content. Even though this is a pretty low Lexile level book, it's pretty accessible for them. I mean, there's still kids that need a lot of reading out loud. They need a lot of instructional time to read. And they need a lot of encouragement, a lot of connection with their teacher in order to um, you know, feel like comfortable reading in class, especially something that's longer and more intimidating. And um when we're here at bargaining and we're deciding things like wages, salaries, benefits, I think really what we're deciding is whether or not a teacher's going to go home, you know, every two weeks when they look at their paycheck and decide, am I going to do the extra two or three hours of work this week in order to get these kids a novel study, do something that they think is fun, something that's engaging to them, or am I going to go have to drive Door Dash for a few hours tonight to make my bills?
Right. Uh I guess there was like 12 or 13 items on that that included low heat uh some other issues, right? Like there there are multiple multiple issues. But uh that what fall on the occupants right was the uncentered conditions that there was not cleaning. Yeah. So that we have cited them up. Well if you're going to go back anytime if you want to let me know. Thank you. Okay. Yeah. So that's on that and the accessory dwelling units. you know I we we have uh from last time we have couple of uh interested parties that they want to do it right but we still don't have any update from D you know how the septic situation is going to work with that so uh that's on hold because of that uh and with the marathon emergency shelter sets up like like every time we will be setting up uh two shelters you know uh one at middle school one at high school and please again if you can join us right that'll be that'll be great.
So, the test is not going away. It just does not have to be passed for Massachusetts. However, the school committee policy for Dober Sherburn still has MCCAST as a graduation requirement. So, the regional school committee is going to have to come together with a subcommittee to look at that and see if that's something that you want to remain um or change. And so, that'll be a conversation coming up um this spring. We are also deep into the hiring process, which is exciting because we're getting to meet lots lots of new people um who want to come and join our team and work with our students. Um Mr. Conklin and Mr. Healey are part of the um the screening committee for our middle school assistant principal and they were together all day yesterday and all day today finding the the best candidates for for our leadership role.
Uh that is all I have to say. Thank you for letting me testify. Thank you very much. That's everyone who signed up to testify. Is there anyone else wishing to testify in this measure this afternoon?
Or am I going to have to, you know, go to sleep after right after work because I'm so exhausted from doing behavior all day, right? or am I going to have to go make more money to afford, you know, to make up for my health care, right? If we're losing money there. Um, so when we are, you know, deciding how much teachers are getting paid, when we're deciding how much, um, you know, what people are compensated for their work, it's to help them make that decision that, you know, hey, it's okay for me to do a few hours extra work um to benefit our students because I'm taken care of by my school district. Um, and also notably, like Ariel mentioned, you know, not everything boils down to test scores. Like when if you ever teach a novel to any of our students in our schools, especially the upper grades.
Uh the opening uh go permitting software so we are working with the team from open gov we are all set for um initial application and we are working with them right now to uh kind of develop our inspectional software for our food establishments.
Um and I just want to thank all of our principles and teachers who sit on these hiring committees because it's a lot of work to screen the um resumes, hold the interviews, and then they have them come in um and do um mock lessons tasks you know that they would be expected to do in their role. So um it's exciting but it's timeconuming and at the end of the day we'll be excited to bring on some new folks in August um the budget process. So um thank you to Jesse and Mark who attended the um do warrant open hearing on March 17th. They presented the chering and regional budgets without many questions which was great. Um Christine, Kate, and Dawn all presented um to the Sherburn advisory hearing on Saturday, March 22nd, which was a bit longer than the Dover meeting. Um it lasted all day, but um we had presentations on the Pinehill budget, the regional budget, and then the um turf fields that we're hoping um to replace the one right behind you.
Seeing none, are there any questions? Seeing none, thank you. Let's move on to the next pair of resolutions, STR 197 and SR77. And I'll note we had posted a proposed Senate draft one um for these and testifying first on 197. Uh we have uh submitted testimony when everyone signed up to testify. Uh seeing no one else in the room to testify in this these measures uh and no one to ask questions of. If there are no other questions, let's move on to the next set of measures STR 195 and SR1 175 uh supporting encouraging a broader relationship between the state and the Kingdom of Sweden. and testifying first um are we excuse me we have testimony uh submitted from the consulate of Sweden Honolulu and some individuals um is there anyone else wishing to testify on these measures and seeing as there are none uh let's move on to the next set of measures 181 and SR51 uh urging DOT to establish lish a working group on uh lowering the legal limit of blood alcohol in uh from 08 to 0.05 and testifying on 181 and 151.
I mean, you'll hear some pretty scary stories. You'll hear um oh, I haven't read a book in three, four years. I haven't Some kids will tell you they haven't read a book ever. So, um at least not a book without pictures. And so, I think um these are the things that I'm always thinking about going into bargaining as a classroom teacher. Okay. Thank you. Yes. Hi, my name is Justin Moody. Um I was unaware of the thing. I wasn't here for the last meeting. Mhm. Uh but I would say that my representation is um facility focused but a non-biased view. I have a lot of family and friends that are in education. So it's just another opportunity for me to get involved in a conversation where I have multiple outlooks on the education foundation and kind of what's going on and you know so it's very to learn and I like to be here.
This is where we are and with the disease investigations still have like three to four active TV cases that we are working and I'm open for any questions for um any further update on Joan Drive. So I did uh u couple of inspections right so two of the units out of that three units that was pending are cleared uh one of the units that's occupied still have activity right that was uh rodent and roaches right so we have asked them u pest control reports every other week so that they've been providing it to us I've been uh doing inspections at the dumpster I was in fact there today this afternoon. So that they are keeping up. There was one inspection that there was some stuff at the at the dumpster right that I've notified the manager. After that I have two clear inspections. One of them was today.
So, just a reminder that Sherburn Town Meeting is coming up on Tuesday, April 29th at 7 p.m. and Dober Town meeting Monday, May 5th at 7 p.m. Both of those are important for all of the warrant articles that will be presented, including the school budgets and the turf fields. And there seems to be some concern um among the Sherburn um officials around supporting the financial aspect of the turf fields as well as the environmental component of it. And despite the presentation by Don and Mark about um the turf and what's real and what's not real, um there still seems to be concern. So if you are in favor of the turf field or not, um I encourage you to come to the town meetings and to show up at the polls because I think that's you know it's not a given that there'll be a new field and what comes after that is going to be um interesting.
Uh we have the office of the governor. Uh in support also signed up to testify is the Hawaii Public Health Institute online. Good afternoon. Hi. Good afternoon, Chair Lee and members of the committee. Uh my name is Rick Collins. I'm with the Hawaii Alcohol Policy Alliance and we're a project of the Hawaii Public Health Institute. Um we're here in support of this resolution and just want to thank uh you chair Lee for um introducing this resolution um and for the committee uh for hearing it and considering it. Um, we do ask uh you to um uh potentially do one amendment to this bill and that would be in Zena uh our written testimony, but it's essentially to add an additional member to the uh working group that would be any other member at the discretion of the director of transportation um just so there's some leeway in terms of uh his his or her ability to um bring in experts into that working group as they see fit.
So, you're wellrounded with all of your acquaintances experience. Okay. And yours as well. I brought a rubber band. Um, I feel like it represents us being flexible. It also has multiple uses, which I think can be outcomes within our negotiations process. Um, it can be useful for bringing things together to tie them. And I think that mirrors the work that we're doing here today. I think there are multiple ways that we can look at problems and use them and try and be creative about the solutions that we come up with and I hope that we can remain flexible and still be coming together in our work today. Good. Thank you neighbor. Uh I'm neighbor obviously we know I'm from the transportation department. I just brought a little school bus cuz uh I joined meet and confer and IB and a part of the IBN process just because I want to bring a voice of transportation.